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gthumb: can you view exif data?
by Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak 30 Sep '06

30 Sep '06

I'm investigating gthumb/libexif oddities. Can anyone here view exif data whith gthumb on FC5? That is, do you see an "Exif" tab whem running File > Properties on a jpeg image with embedded exif tags? - Mike

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Swap space question
by nicolas angel 30 Sep '06

30 Sep '06

Hi, i would to ask something about swap space: i quote from the book "How Linux Works—What Every Super-User Should Know" "Reserve two to five times as much disk space as you have real memory for swap. It doesn't make sense to go any lower, because you may actually risk running out of memory. If you go higher and actually intend to use all of this swap space, you will likely suffer serious performance problems because the system will spend all of its time swapping (a condition known as thrashing). " i can't understand why if create a really big swap partition i will have a performance decrease????It seems to me that in the worst case scenario, i will be throwing disk space [because the system will never use the swap partition if it doesn't need it......why this would have a negative impact on the system......] thanks in advance, Nicolas Ang

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How to choose reliable hardware devices when building a system
by dcooke＠efn.org 30 Sep '06

30 Sep '06

Seems though some newer devices are not "Fedora Friendly", at least with newer SATA drives, some USB's and the Intel 965GTP series. Would like to hear from those especially who have used most of the Fedora releases, have tried and tested over years, and experienced stable systems. David Cooke Seattle, WA

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strange tone in recored sound
by Faust Nijhuis 30 Sep '06

30 Sep '06

Hello all, I have a problem with recording sound. It makes no difference how it is recorded, mythtv or just a microphone. When i play the recorded sound it sounds like a bad radio from 40 years ago. And there is irritating tone in it. I tried every mixer setting but getting no result. I also did a check, maybe the sound card is broken, with koppix and here it was ok. What can cause this problem? Faust

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address book application
by Amadeus W.M. 30 Sep '06

30 Sep '06

Is there any simple standalone address/phone book application (i.e. not part of evolution or other big program)? Right now I have my contacts stored in an ascii file, and grep works fine, but I'd like to have the records stored alphabetically (though grep doesn't care).

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OpenGL glut.h in Fedora Core 5?
by Terry Snyder 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

I am taking a Graphics programming class in C++ and we need to use the glut.h and opengl lib, were can I find them in Fedora Core 5? I found a GL folder on my system but it doesn't have gult.h in it. Thanks in advance for all of the help. -- Terry Snyder Jr Computer Support Specialist http://www.personal.psu.edu/tes215 Linux (Red Hat, Fedora Core), Windows, Mac Fedora Core 5 3 users, load average: 0.19, 0.30, 0.28

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scripting help
by Tom Brown 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

Hi I have a script and the output of that script is currently UCD-SNMP-MIB::ucdavis.55.101.1 = STRING: "CRITICAL emcpowera, 2 dead, 2 alive, possible LUN tresspass or HBA failure" is there anyway to cut off the text ' UCD-SNMP-MIB::ucdavis.55.101.1 = STRING: ' so that i get whatever comes AFTER that ? thanks

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No KDE
by George Hare 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

I usually use Gnome (fc5_64)and check out KDE every once in a while. I tried to open KDE today and just got a box telling me, "could not start kstartupconfig. Check your installation.". I did a search and found a file kstartupconfig_8pp-something or other, but that was in user/share/docs and it was code. I'm too new to know where to begin with this. I've tried intalling all the libraries but to no avail. Any ideas that would also keep my Home info in tact would be greatly appreciated. -- G. Hare

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Intel DG965 motherboard, Core 2 Duo & FC5
by David Scriven 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

I have a new Core 2 Duo (6400) system with a DG965RY motherboard, 1GB RAM & a NVIDIA 7600 GT graphics card. I've tried to do a standard install of FC5 with the 200608 respin but it crashes because it can't find a driver for the DVD (I think -it's not specific on what driver it can't find). Googling this problem seems to indicate that one needs the 2.6.18 kernel to support this motherboard and its associated NIC, DVD, etc. I know that some of 2.6.18 has been ported back into 2.6.17 but I can't see any support for this board. Question: Are there any current/in development kernels that support this motherboard - if so which? DS __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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what's the story on mixing yum repos these days?
by Robert P. J. Day 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

what's the conventional wisdom on incompatibilities between different FC yum repositories these days? i have a fully-updated FC5 system that has only ever been updated from FC updates and FC extras. i've read differing advice on whether it's safe to mix and match livna, ATrpms and rpmforge repos. what i'm after is to install various multimedia packages (codecs, mplayer, etc.) any good advice? thanks. rday

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